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Linuxworld Fun
The Linuxworld Expo is now in full swing, and there's a variety of news. The BBC has an overview. Microsoft has a booth at the Expo in the section intended for "new, up-and-coming companies". Sun is rolling out servers running Linux. And VA Software - Slashdot's owner - is moving Sourceforge.net to IBM's database software.
Having Microsoft at LinuxWorld is like having a KKK booth at an African American rally!
The similarities are remarkable...
- Both lie, cheat, and steal to promote their messages.
- Both prey on ignorance, and then fill those gullible enough to listen with lies and FUD.
If this analogy was even near true, how lame would it have been if the african americans had posted up their own message board where they all banged on and ON and ON to each other reaffirming the same tired old viewpoints. Nope, they went an did something about it. Look and learn. Or, alternatively, don't use such WANK similes in future you Linux zealot fool.
Okay, what's the big deal? It's a RaQ. They've been running x86 hardware and some variation of a Linux-based OS for years. The option to run Solaris is sort of novel, but then, that hasn't as much to do with the hardware platform as it does Sun's decision to resume development of Solaris for x86. Yeah it's cool and all, but really, Sun running Linux on x86 hardware isn't all that revolutionary.